SXSW Lite: Mutating Social Hustle Into Couch Potato Charm Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to emotionally process this lost opportunity. There was no Covi...
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year would bring 40 programs, and 180 films selected from 3,500 sub...
The Rhizomatic Underground of Contemporary Animation Curatorship: The 9th Under the Radar Festival Dirk de Bruyn October 2019 Festival Reports The 9th Under the Radar animation film festival took place in the MuseumsQuartier, the Blickle Kino and the Filmhaus Kino in Vienna from 1-5 July. The event has a conference component which enables an in-depth ...
Laying Bare the Anzac Legend: Interview with Köken Ergun Dirk de Bruyn October 2019 Interviews I am talking with Turkish filmmaker and video artist Köken Ergun at the International Film Festival Rotterdam about a documentary that all Australian and New Zealand audiences should see. Şehitler (Heroes), com...
The Unspeakable finds Voice: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Dirk de Bruyn March 2019 Festival Reports The 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam was IFFR director Bero Beyer’s fourth iteration. The four program groupings that he instigated in his inaugural year remain in place with special...
Chasing Rabbits out of the Hat and into the SHEDding of Childhood: Alice Dirk de Bruyn March 2018 Alice in Wonderland This is an abridged version of a longer article. Alice (1987 Switzerland/Czechoslovakia 86 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Condor Features/Film Four International/Hessischer Rundfunk Prod: Peter-Christian F...
Neil Taylor’s Experimental Animation: The Technical Habitus As Aesthetic Trace Dirk de Bruyn September 2016 Feature Articles This essay examines Neil Taylor's animations, situated between the moving image, performance and sculpture and in the shadows of his recognised wire-based sculptural practice. Taylor's animations automatically ...
Marking Time, Duration as Subject: Tony Woods: Archive by Andrew Gaynor (ed.) Dirk de Bruyn October 2014 Book Reviews I like boring things. When you sit and look out of a window, that’s enjoyable. It takes up time. Yeah. Really, you see people looking out of their window all the time. I do. If you’re not looking out of a windo...
Scanning Animafest: the 24th Animafest Dirk de Bruyn June 2014 Festival Reports Animafest’s 24th iteration in Zagreb, Croatia brought two innovations. The Animafest Scanner Symposium and the third outdoor screening at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), both noted by Daniel Šuljić...
Structuralist Film and the Birth of Surveillance: The 2013 Alternativa Film/Video Festival Dirk de Bruyn March 2014 Festival Reports This second visit to Belgrade, Serbia’s Alternativa Film/Video festival opened up a response to the parallel film histories encountered at last year’s attendance (documented in Senses of Cinema here) through Lj...
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The 2012 Alternative Film/Video Festival Dirk de Bruyn March 2013 Festival Reports Have no respect, it’s only film. – Vassily Bourikas The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade has historically been one of a triumvirate of critical festivals, with Pula’sMAFAF (1965-1990) and Zagreb’s ...
Raiders of the Lost Archive: the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Dirk de Bruyn March 2012 Festival Reports The biennial Bangkok Experimental Film Festival had its sixth incarnation from 24 January to 5 February 2012 with a focus on the archive as inspiration for new critical artist films and as invocation to locate ...
